Obsession I have known
though I love only myself
	Breaches in walls
	threaten in and out
	until surrender

Submission I have known
though I love only myself
	Prepared to trust
	a city yields
	to her first conqueror

Betrayal I have known
and I love only myself
	Stern generals slay
	their captives
	in the bloody streets

But *who* sends children, yet unborn,
to bear his spite?